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Jaspur Min Coleman, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She received her medical degree from Washington University and completed her internal medicine residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. She cares for patients on the clinical hospitalist services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital, and The Rehabilitation Institute of St. Louis.  Dr. Coleman enjoys attending on the teaching service with the medicine residents and medical students. She also assists in recruitment of internal medicine residency candidates as an interviewer. Dr. Coleman serves on the recruitment committee and is the co-chair of the social/wellness committee for DHM.

Shannon Coombs, MD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in June 2025. She grew up in Elmsford, New York before attending Howard University in Washington, DC where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History.  There, she was inspired by her university’s motto of ‘Truth and Service’ to engage in service activism by working with a non-profit called LIFT-DC to help families break cycles of poverty.  After college, she worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in South Korea teaching conversational English to high school students. Dr. Coombs took the lessons learned about service and communication to medical school at Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine Arizona-Florida. Dr. Coombs completed her internal medicine internship and residency at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis/Barnes Jewish Hospital 2022-2025.

Edward Daniel, MD, PhD, joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in July 2025. He attended Harvard University where he obtained his degree in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology with a minor in Music, graduating cum laude in 2012. Afterwards, he attended the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas, where he obtained both his PhD in 2019 and MD in 2021 with induction into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. His PhD work focused on how cells communicate to one another during embryonic development to properly form organs, focusing on the role endothelial cells play in the embryonic kidney and lung organogenesis. Daniel completed internal medicine internship and residency at WashU Medicine in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital in 2024. Afterwards, he served as a Chief Resident for the Internal Medicine Residency Program from 2024-2025, focusing primarily on both the education and inpatient experiences for residents. His clinical and professional interests are in clinical and diagnostic reasoning, curriculum design and development, and general internal medicine with a focus on inpatient care.

Tony Dao, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine.  He is from Dayton, OH and completed medical school at Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) in Rootstown, OH. He is passionate about initiatives that allow everyone to thrive on campus and graduate medical education. He directs OUTmed, an organization that promotes education and community building with LGBTQIA+ themes.  He is an associate program director for the IM Residency Program. Clinically, he attends on the inpatient teaching services and direct care services.  His favorite part of the job is getting the opportunity to work with the internal medicine residents.

Lakshman Darsi, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine with 30 years of dedicated service as a hospitalist at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital. He has an interest in the direct care of patients on the hospitalist service along with teaching responsibilities to residents and medical students. He aids in the recruitment of new faculty to the division and serves on the Social/Wellness Committee.

Bethany Dement, MD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She works on the oncology and bone marrow transplant services, and she has an interest in teaching medical students rotating on these services. Additionally, she serves on the hospitalist BMT/Oncology committee.

Radha Devi, MD, SFHM, FACP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She did her residency in Chicago and worked as a hospitalist in one of the Mayo Clinic satellite locations prior to joining the division in 2017. She is the Co-Director of the recruitment committee for the division. Radha has interests in patient safety and quality improvement and serves on the patient safety and quality committee within the Division of Hospital Medicine.  She serves as the Medical Director for the North Campus Medicine Floors 7900 and 8900. She cares for patients on the direct hospitalist service, FIRM medicine, and BMT, and is involved in teaching residents and medical students. Other areas of interest include interprofessional teamwork, advancement of women, and diversity initiatives within the division.

Dr. Erin Dyer joined the Division of Hospital Medicine as an Instructor in Medicine in August of 2024. She attended college at the University of Mississippi, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Chinese in 2015. She then attended medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi and graduated cum laude in 2020. She completed her Internal Medicine internship and residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. After residency, she served as the Ambulatory Chief Resident for the Internal Medicine Residency Program for the year 2023-2024, during which she had a key role in managing all administrative aspects of the Primary Care Medicine Clinic at the Center for Outpatient Health. In addition to her clinical responsibilities with the Division of Hospital Medicine, she also spends part of her time as an attending in the Primary Care Medicine Clinic.

Cady Edwards, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and serves as Director of the Medicine Triage Attending service. She serves on the patient care operations committee and has special interest in patient throughput, triage, and distribution overnight. As co-director of the Division of Hospital Medicine Orientation Committee, she develops orientation materials for newly hired hospitalists. She also works at Barnes-Jewish West County and serves on the Barnes-Jewish West County Pharmacy & Therapeutics committee. She is a recent recipient of the Covid STAR award recognizing significant clinical contributions during the Covid-19 pandemic. She also was awarded the DHM Excellence in Nocturnal Medicine award in 2024.

Lauren Elliott, DNP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner. She received her BSN at Goldfarb School of Nursing in St. Louis, Missouri. She started her nursing career in acute care medicine at BJH in 2015. She received her Doctorate in Nursing Practice at University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL). She joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at Washington University as an NP in 2023.

Tim Evans, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine within the respective Divisions of Hospital Medicine and Pediatrics. He attends as a hospitalist on both the hospitalist and oncology services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH). He attends as a hospitalist/nocturnist at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (SLCH) on both teaching and non-teaching teams and provides direct care to pediatric patients in the emergency departments of several community hospitals. He serves on the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Committee, with an active role in safety event reviews at BJH. Areas of interest include medical education, patient safety and quality improvement (PSQI), curriculum development in PSQI, and mentorship.

Arafat Ali Farooqui, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. He received his medical degree from the King Edward Medical University Lahore, Pakistan and completed his internal medicine residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He has a special interest in oncology and cardiology with particular focus on performing systematic reviews and conducting meta-analyses. He works as an attending physician on the General Medicine and Oncology hospitalist services.

Safa Farrag, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She is dual board certified for both the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP). She has special interest and experience in implementing Quality methodology and Safety tools to provide high value care and improve outcomes. Dr. Farrag attends General Medicine Inpatient Teaching service (FIRM medicine), Consults service, and Hospitalist Direct Care.  She has published several articles on quality improvement and women’s health, and has won several awards for the best QI projects and for her dedication to teaching and patient care service.

Carol Faulk, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with interests in resident well-being and medical education.  She is core faculty and Director of Well-being for the Internal Medicine residency program.  She is also co-director of the Internal Medicine-Advanced Clinical Rotation, which is a rotation similar to a traditional medicine sub-internship for the phase III medical students.  She attends on a mix of the General Medicine Inpatient teaching service (FIRM medicine), Procedure team, and Hospitalist Direct Care.